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Buckminsterfullerene cations: New dimensions in gas‐phase ion chemistry
Author(s) -
Bohme Diethard K.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
mass spectrometry reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.035
H-Index - 126
eISSN - 1098-2787
pISSN - 0277-7037
DOI - 10.1002/mas.20227
Subject(s) - buckminsterfullerene , chemistry , fullerene , mass spectrometry , ion , ionization , chemical ionization , electron ionization , gas phase , fullerene chemistry , analytical chemistry (journal) , organic chemistry , chromatography
The author provides a brief overview, and shares the extraordinary excitement, of the years of unprecedented discoveries in ion chemistry that followed the first production of fullerene powder in 1990. Various charge states of the buckminsterfullerene ${\rm C}_{60}^{n + }$ cation became available by conventional electron‐impact ionization of the vapor of this powder and so for mass‐spectrometric measurements of ion reactivity. The emphasis here will be on fullerene‐ion research performed in the author's own laboratory at York University using electron ionization flow‐tube mass spectrometry techniques. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., Mass Spec Rev 28:672–693, 2009